 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - Liquor laws - 1924 - 126 pages
...Jefferson writing to M. de Neuville, in advocacy of the culture of grapes in America, as follows : No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes distilled spirits as the common beverage. And to bring matters down to date, permit me to also quote... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary - 1924 - 922 pages
...Jefferson writing to M. de Neuville. in advocacy of the culture of grapes in America, as follows : No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes distilled spirits as the common beverage. And to bring matters down to date, permit me to also quote... | |
 | American literature - 1925 - 718 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whisky, which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whisky. Fix but the duty at the rate of other merchandise,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1927 - 782 pages
...our citizens and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey which is desolating their houses. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes spirits as the common beverage. It is, in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey." Mr. Jefferson,... | |
 | Francis Wrigley Hirst - Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826 - 1926 - 654 pages
...was as cheap as grog, who would not prefer it ? The poison of whiskey was desolating American homes. "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none...substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage." Early in January, 1819, a correspondent asked him for some political advice. Jefferson replied that... | |
 | Harry Elmer Barnes - History - 1926 - 638 pages
...our citizens, and a condemnation of them to the poison of whiskey, which is desolating their homes. No nation is drunken where wine is cheap; and none...sober where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent whiskey or spirits as the common beverage. It is in truth, the only antidote to the bane of whiskey."... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1926 - 1704 pages
...Thomas Jefferson writing to M. de Neuville in advocacy of the culture of grapes in America, as follows : "No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes distilled spirits as the common beverage." LEADS TO SECRET DRINKING I recommend all of these views... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Alcohol - 1926 - 690 pages
...Jefferson writing to M. de Neuville in advocacy of the culture of grapes in America, as follows : " No nation is drunken where wine is cheap, and none sober where the dearness of wine substitutes distilled spirits as the common beverage." LEADS TO SECRET DRINKING I recommend all of these views... | |
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No nation is drunken where wine is cheap ; and none sober, where the dearness of wine substitutes ardent spirits as the common beverage. 
